"I'd need to come back at that and say, yeah, we maybe haven't done as well at the top clubs as we should have done and, yeah, maybe we've lost the odd game in Europe we shouldn't have done, but with what we've done here – how many years have we been in Europe and competed in the top half of the league? Maybe that's as good as Everton can do on the financial resources Everton have got."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/15/everton-liverpool-premier-league